mikerbrt2000 18 hours ago

Great journalism. I hope the authorities bring this person to justice and arrest them for fraud.

I saw this ad a few months ago on YouTube and flagged it as a scam when I couldn’t find much information about the company. Never donate money through random sites. If you use platforms like https://www.gofundme.com/, at least you have the option to file a complaint if you find something suspicious.

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Nextgrid 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I hope the authorities bring this person to justice and arrest them for fraud.

They haven’t scammed nor inconvenienced a rich, well-connected person, so unlikely anything will happen. Remember that online fraud is effectively legal (10% of Meta’s revenue is from scam ads by their own estimates) as long as you only target the poor.

These scam campaigns have been going for years with people operating in the field across many countries - if there was an incentive to stop this it would’ve been done already, but since everyone’s making money why bother?

> file a complaint if you find something suspicious

Which will be piped to /dev/null, just like reporting scams on social media.

	▲	intended 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Tangentially related - If you aren’t aware, there are out of court settlement bodies which exist as part of the DSA. If you have content which is removed, or a moderation decision you wish to dispute, you can go to one of these bodies to get it reviewed. It cannot go to dev/null. This doesn’t address whether flagging scams resulted in action. The bigger picture is the mismatched incentives for tech. Platforms are not quite incentivized to care about responding to user complaints, and do not give out information that lets us know what is happening independently. To get to the point that complaints are actioned, those incentives need to be realigned. The ODS pathway, if used more frequently, increases that revenue and market pressure. The ODS system is new, and I expect it will have tons of issues to discover. I wouldn’t be surprised it it is already weaponized. On the flip side, platforms haven’t been tested or queried in this manner before.

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spiderfarmer 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump will probably compliment him, call him smart and pardon him. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-cou...